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Calendar of Events
APRIL 2001

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April 2, Monday

Peter Schott, Yale, "Factor Price Equality and the Economies of the United States," Workshop in Trade and Development
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                          3:30-5:00 pm

April 3, Tuesday

V.V. Chari, Minnesota, ""Financial Crises as Herds" (with Patrick Kehoe). Macroeconomics Workshop
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                          2:00 pm

Elena Krasnokutskaya, Yale, "Pricing Auctions in the Deregulated Electricity Market," Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse                                  2:00-3:30 pm

April 4, Wednesday

Doug Rae, Yale, "The End of Urbanism," Faculty Lunch Workshop.
     Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse                     11:30 am-1:00 pm

John Rust, Yale University, "Middle Men versus Market Makers: A Theory of Competitive Exchange" (joint with George Hall). Cowles Foundation Lunch
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse                                   12:00-1:15 pm

Abby Innes, London School of Economics, "The Great Electoral Lottery in Post-Communist Europe and EU Integration," The Yale Program on European Union Studies.
     Room 202, Luce Hall                                                12:00-1:30 pm

Philip Hoffman, California Institute of Technology, "How the French Revolution Reshaped Financial Markets," Workshop in Economic History
     Room 108, 28 Hillhouse                                            4-5:30 pm

April 5, Thursday

Bartosz Mackowiak, Yale, "Monetary-fiscal interactions and (in)stability of price level pegs," Macro Lunch
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse                                    12-1:00 pm

Aviv Nevo, U. California, Berkeley, Sales and Consumer Inventory, Applied Microeconomics Workshop, 608b (joint with Micro/Strategy Seminar)
     Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse                       4 pm

April 6, Friday

Rob Townsend, University of Chicago, "The Nature of Financial Constraints:  Distinguishing the Micro Underpinnings of Macro Models," Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population (joint with Trade and Development Workshop)
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                             12:15-1:45 pm

April 9, Monday

Cliff Carrubba, Emory University, Political Science, "How Transnational Courts Can Evolve into Binding Institutions," Political Economy Workshop
     Room 203, Luce Hall                                                  12:00-1:30 pm

Romain Wacziarg, Stanford University, "Stages of Diversification," Workshop in Trade and  Development
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                               3:30-5 pm

P. Kurukulasariya, Yale, FES, "Water Improvement Valuation in Sri Lanka," Natural Resource Seminar
     Sage 32, 205 Prospect                                                  4:00 pm

April 10, Tuesday

N. Gregory Mankiv, Harvard, "The Inexorable and Mysterious Tradeoff Between Inflation and Unemployment," Macroeconomics Workshop
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                                2:00 pm

Garth Frazer, Yale, "Measuring Returns to Education Using Direct Controls for Ability with Linked Employer-Employee Data," Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics.
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse                                        2:30 pm

April 11, Wednesday

Giacomo Corneo, University of Osnabruck, Economics, "Individual preferences for political redistribution," Political Economy Workshop
     70 Sachem St.                                                               NOON

Svetlana Boyarchenko, University of Pennsylvania, "Capital Accumulation under Non-Gaussian Processes and the Marshallian Law," Microeconomic Theory Workshop
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                                2:30-4:00 pm

Susanne Schennach, University of Chicago, "Estimation of Nonlinear Models with
Measurement Error," Econometrics Research Seminar
     Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                                                  4:00-5:30 pm

Rebecca Menes, George Mason College, "American Government Expansion Before the New Deal:  The Growth of Urban Government 1902-1931," Workshop in Economic History
    Room 108, 28 Hillhouse                                                4:00-5:30 pm

April 12, Thursday

Feng Zhu, Yale, "Nonparametric Analysis of the U.S. Income Distribution," Macro Lunch
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse                                        12:00-1:00 pm

Christopher Flinn, NYU, "Minimum Wage Effects on Employment and Earnings in the Presence of Search and Matching," Applied Microeconomics Workshop
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                                2:30-4:00 pm

April 13, Friday

Stephen Cacciola, Yale University, "On-Board Computer Use and Organization in the Trucking Industry," Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                                12:15-1:45 pm

April 16, Monday

D. Dziegielewska, Yale, FES, "The Benefits of Air Pollution Control in Poland," Natural Resource Seminar
     Sage 32, 205 Prospect                                                  4:00 pm

April 17, Tuesday

Thomas J. Sargent, Stanford University, "Wanting Robustness in Macroeconomics," Macroeconomics Workshop
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                                 2:00 pm

Yi Deng, Yale, "Private Value of European Patents," Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse                                         2:30 pm

In-Koo Cho, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Escape Dynamics" (joint with T. Sargent and N. Williams). Bounded Rationality and Macroeconomics Workshop
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                                 6 pm

Bounded Rationality and Macroeconomics The Cowles Foundation is funding a number of major research initiatives at Yale. This week, two of these programs, one in macroeconomics and one in bounded rationality, combine to bring several prominent scholars to speak on related work.

 Tuesday, April 17

Thomas J. Sargent, Stanford University, "Wanting Robustness in Macroeconomics," Macroeconomics Workshop
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                       2 pm
In-Koo Cho, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Escape Dynamics" (joint with T. Sargent and N. Williams).
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                       6 pm

Wednesday, April 18

Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago, "Robustness and Pricing with   Uncertain Growth," Joint Cowles Foundation Seminar, Microeconomic Theory Workshop, and Macroeconomics Workshop
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                           2:30-4:00 pm

April 18, Wednesday

Daniel Diermeier, MEDS, Northwestern University, "Mass political action," Political Economy Workshop
     70 Sachem St.                                                                NOON

Tomas Garcia Azcarate, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, "Harmonizing the Common Agricultural Policy with Nature in an Enlarged Europe." The Council on European Studies at YCIAS
     Room 203, Luce Hall                                                      2:00 pm

Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago, "Robustness and Pricing with Uncertain Growth,"    Joint Cowles Foundation Seminar, Microeconomic Theory Workshop, and Macroeconomics Workshop
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                                  2:30-4:00 pm

Maristella Botticini, Boston University, "A Human Capital Interpretation of the Economic History of the Jews," Workshop in Economic History
     Room 108, 28 Hillhouse                                                  4:00-5:30 pm

April 19, Thursday

YLS Corporate Law Roundtable, please see http://www.yale.edu/law/ccl/ for details.
     Room 122, Yale Law School                                          9:00 am - 4:15 pm

Hui Wang, Yale, "Within-industry momentum study and its implication in explaining momentum," Macro Lunch
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse                                         12:00-1:00 pm

Lanier Benkard, Stanford GSB, "Demand Estimation with Heterogeneous Consumers and Unobserved Product Characteristics: A Hedonic Approach," Applied Microeconomics Workshop
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                                  2:30-4:00 pm

April 20, Friday

Duncan Thomas, UCLA, "Education in a Crisis," Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                                  12:15-1:45 pm

April 23, Monday

Garth Frazer, Yale University, "The Firm and the Family Network: Measuring the Relative Productivity of Relatives," Workshop in Trade and Development
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                                   3:30-5:00 pm

April 24, Tuesday

Nancy Epling, Yale, TBA. Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse                                           2:30-4:00 pm

April 26, Thursday

Alexis Milo, Yale, "Is Risk Aversion Constant in Financial Markets? Some Evidence," Macro Lunch
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse                                           12:00-1:00 pm

Jeffrey Kopstein, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Where is Europe? The EU and Mapping of East and West," The Council on European Studies at YCIAS
     Room 103, Luce Hall                                                        Noon

Peter Arcidiacono, Duke,  "Affirmative Action in Higher Education: How do Admission and Financial Aid Rules Affect Future Earnings?," Applied Microeconomics Workshop
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                                    2:30-4:00 pm

Jesse Fried, UC Berkeley, Law, "The Uneasy Case for Share Repurchases," LEO Workshop
     Room 121, Law School                                                    4:10-5:40 pm

April 27, Friday

Pierre Andre Chiappori, University of Chicago, "Household Labor Supply, Sharing Rule and the Marriage Market," Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                                    12:15-1:45 pm

April 30, Monday

Hiroyuki Chuma, Yale University/Hitotsubashi University, "Sources of Machine-Tool Industry Leadership in the 1990s:  Overlooked Intrafirm Factors," Workshop in Trade and Development.
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                                                    3:30-5:00 pm